Abandoned garden, drizzle, misty water blurs the boundary between reality and fantasy.
"Your name is... Yama?" Xu Wang asked again.
"Is there any problem?" The young man tilted his head, wondering why the two were stunned.
Yes, of course there are problems.
Meeting the King of Hell in Chi Yingxue's world is not surprising at all, but as Xu Wang and Wu Sheng who have really gotten along with the King of Hell day and night, the "King of Hell" in front of them is so unfamiliar that people can be caught off guard.
Not just the outward strangeness, but the inner change.
Just like Chi Zhuolin changed from a domineering president to a silly and sweet, Yan Wang also changed from a sophisticated, mature man with a dark belly to a vigorous young man.
Simple and straightforward, energetic and healthy, with the wild energy of loving who and who is all over the body, it is very different from the Hades they know, and almost completely opposite to the Chi Yingxue they know.
Xu Wang blinked his eyes hard to remove the water film stuck between his eyelashes, making the "Ye King" in his field of vision clearer, and allowing his chaotic thoughts to be sorted out.
"No problem. It's just..." He smiled and pointed to himself and Wu Sheng, "We both know a friend, also called the King of Hell."
"Oh?" Hades came to be curious, and while putting on the black mask again, he asked, "What kind of person is he?"
"A little more mature than you, a little more sophisticated, and a little paranoid." Xu Wang looked at his facial features and hid under the mask again, leaving only a pair of wild and alert eyes.
"Why do you compare with me?" Hades said amusingly, "We just happen to have the same name, and it doesn't really matter. It would be hell if we had the same personalities."
"There really is a place," Wu Sheng said calmly, "You two are exactly the same."
Xu Wang looked at his military advisor suspiciously.
King Yan also raised his eyebrows: "Where?"
Wu Sheng lowered his eyes, his eyes fell on his bloody, scarred arms and calves: "You two don't know it hurts."
Yan Wang lowered his head following his gaze, saw his wound, and smiled indifferently: "If you get used to the pain, it won't hurt anymore."
"Are you always hurt?" Xu Wang keenly caught the fleeting bitterness in his eyes, and when he was tensed in his heart, the words came out.
Yan Wang was stunned, as if he was not mentally prepared for this question, and finally waved his hand: "Hey, stop talking about me, aren't you in a hurry to find Chi Yingxue, then hurry up with me."
After he finished speaking, he turned around and walked forward. In front of him, there was a dead tree, and no paths or buildings could be seen.
Xu Wang and Wu Sheng looked at each other and hurriedly followed, but after following up, Xu Wang asked worriedly, "Which way are you taking us?"
Perhaps the real King of Hell always has a bit of hostility towards Chi Yingxue, so Xu Wang and Wu Sheng are still unable to be 100% secure against such a "good neighbor and friendly" King of Hell.
"Of course it's the road dedicated to me, the King of Hell." The King of Hell glanced back at the two of them, with the aura of letting the world go.
While they were talking, the three of them had come to fall under a very thick dead tree, the broad and scorched yellow leaves were covered with dead branches, and there was an old well with slate pressed under the tree.
The King of Hell bent down, took a deep breath, and pushed off the large stone slab with one person's strength, revealing the well-worn wellhead.
The well was dry, and the bottom of the well could be seen at a glance.
"Don't tell me, you're going to jump..." Before Xu Wang could finish speaking, a gust of wind had passed by his side.
With a bang, the King of Hell fell into the well, and when he was finished he raised his head to greet them: "Come down quickly."
Xu Wang looked at the bottom of the well, which was four or five meters deep, and his head hurt: "Is this your special road?"
"Don't be afraid," Hades opened his arms intimately, "I'll follow you."
"No," Wu Sheng refused for his own captain, "He has someone to pick him up."
As Xu Wang fell steadily into Wu Sheng's arms, the small well was almost filled with three people. On the wall of the well at their knees, there is a round hole as wide as one person. I don't know where it leads. They can only feel the swish wind. cool.
Hades bent down with difficulty and got into the round hole.
Xu Wang and Wu Sheng looked at each other without words, always feeling that they were inattentive and went astray.
In the cave where you can't reach five fingers, you can't hear the sound of rain on the ground again, only occasionally there is a "tick" coming from somewhere, taking advantage of the darkness to be extraordinarily quiet.
Yan Wang, Xu Wang, and Wu Sheng climbed forward one after the other, the speed was slow, the tunnels were potholes, the back was sore, the knees were aching, and if Xu Wang didn't say anything, he would be suffocated to death.
Xu Wang: "Don't tell me Chi Yingxue lives in the basement."
Hades: "How is that possible, the serious west wing."
Xu Wang: "...Then why do we go underground!"
Hades: "Someone is guarding the ground."
Xu Wang: "The gardener and driver have already been driven away by us."
Hades: "They only guard the garden, and there are more guards in the inner courtyard. Without the permission of President Chi, if you want to break through, ten lives are not enough."
Xu Wang: "President Chi? Chi Yingxue's father?"
Hades: "Otherwise, who else would there be?"
Xu Wang: "That's it. He is Chi Yingxue's father. We are Chi Yingxue's friends. We communicate well with each other. There is no reason why we are not allowed to meet."
Yama: "Hey, that person, I can't communicate."
Xu Wang: "Have you tried it?"
Hades: "Don't try, he locked Chi Yingxue in the west wing and wouldn't let him go out, what communication is there!"
Xu Wang's figure paused, and Wu Sheng, who was in the dark, was also slightly startled.
When the veranda vibrated, and "Chi Zhuolin" was heard from the sky, they had foreseen that this "Old President Chi" was not easy to mess with.
But at that time, they only thought that he was a dignified, unsmiling, and oppressive father, and never thought deeply about the father-son relationship between him and Chi Yingxue.
Xu Wang: "Why did he lock Xiaoxue?"
Hades: "Xiaoxue?"
Xu Wang: "Oh, we all call him that."
Yan Wang: "It seems that your relationship is really good."
Xu Wang: "We and you are friends now."
Hades was delighted: "I didn't expect that one day I would borrow Chi Yingxue's light."
"Back to the previous question," Wu Sheng reminded lightly, "Why does President Chi lock Xiaoxue?"
"I really don't know this," Yan Wang sighed, "Anyway, I'm looking for Chi Yingxue to play, so I've been going underground. You can follow me, it's not wrong, just... "
Xu Wang and Wu Sheng: "That's it?"
"This road may be a little bumpy." King Yama paused for each word, with an innocent tone.
After a long crawl, the three finally jumped out of the tunnel and entered a spacious space that was somewhere unknown.
Wu Sheng turned on the flashlight on his mobile phone, only to see clearly that this was a stone room with smooth masonry walls on all sides, as well as the top of his head.
Just as Xu Wang was about to ask where this place was, he saw the King of Hell walking to the corner of the wall, groping for the wall there, as if looking for something.
Soon, a "click" that turned the wrench came from Hades.
Then, the wall directly in front of them fell, revealing the next stone chamber.
The stone room was exactly the same size as the one they were in. It was also square, and it was completely closed up, down, left, and right. In the corner of the wall where Hades was standing, there was an inconspicuous little red wrench.
The only difference is that there is a hole in the wall of the stone room where they are now, which is the tunnel they climbed over; and the stone room in front of them, the surrounding walls are intact, but the ground is densely covered with sharp knives, and the blades are rushing up, neatly. Like a killing phalanx.
"We are standing here, there are six stone rooms in total," Hades explained enthusiastically, "We just need to turn the wrench, open the stone gates, break through one by one, and soon we will reach the west wing."
Xu Wang turned his head to look at him, and smiled hard and slowly: "Is every subsequent stone room like the previous one?"
"How come." Yan Wang immediately shook his head.
Xu Wang breathed a sigh of relief: "That's good."
Hades: "The further you go, the more dangerous it is."
Xu Wang: "..."
Yama:"?"
Xu Wang: "That's what you said... maybe, a little, bumpy?!"
…
Hidden secret room.
Kuang Jinxin, who didn't know that his captain and military division had already embarked on a bumpy road, finally gave up the trouble of Nezha in the long river of memory. He was afraid that he would continue to mess up, and the password would not be found, and then the conventional memory would be messed up.
If you can't remember, you can only take the book with you.
Kuang Jinxin quickly checked the rest of the bookshelf and confirmed that there was only one real book, and then, with a little anxiety about "stealing other people's things", put the book into a small backpack.
The moment before putting it in, whether it was out of curiosity or a ghost, Kuang Jinxin opened the book and glanced at it again.
When he first found the book, he had already opened it. Although I can't remember the password, at least I can see what kind of book the mother book is. The words "Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes" are completely unfamiliar to him. Intuitively, they should be similar to "Grimm's Fairy Tales". Just flip through a few pages. Sure enough, they are all nursery rhymes in Chinese and English. What about chasing cats? Climbing the pyre, eating Christmas pie, simple and full of childlike fun.
But when he had put the book halfway in his bag, his hand stopped, then he took out the book and opened it a second time.
No reason, I just thought I should take a look.
This time, he turned to a nursery rhyme with only five lines—
My mother has killed me.
(Mom killed me)
My father is eating me.
(Dad ate me)
My brothers and sisters sit under the table.
(siblings sit under the table)
Picking up my bones.
(pick up my bones)
And they bury them under the cold marble stones.
(Buried in a cold stone tomb)
The phone's battery was completely exhausted, and it automatically shut down, annihilating the last ray of light.
Kuang Jinxin stood in the darkness, his hands and feet were cold.
He kept telling himself in his heart that this was just a book, and there were also innocent nursery rhymes in it. It wasn't necessarily linked to reality, or even to Chi Yingxue's world of consciousness. It was probably just him and his brother playing with codes. The mother book I found at random...
In the end, he couldn't go on by himself.
He stood in Chi Yingxue's conscious world, and it might even be the deepest place in the other's heart. Not to mention a book here, just a tree, a tree, and a leaf, all of which are Chi Yingxue's inner imprint.
Suddenly, footsteps came from outside the door, steady, firm, and getting closer.
Kuang Jinxin froze there, not daring to move.
The footsteps stopped in front of the door.
Then, the door of the secret room was pushed.
not open.
When Kuang Jinxin entered the door, he locked it.
The people outside the door obviously did not expect this situation. After a moment of silence, they knocked on the door twice and said politely, "Is anyone inside?"
Kuang Jinxin held his breath, his hand holding the book sweated slightly.
The man only asked this question, and the knock on the door did not appear again.
Kuang Jinxin turned his ears to listen, hoping to catch the sound of leaving footsteps.
However, it was the sound of the key opening the door.
"Squeak-"
The door opened, and there was a person squatting outside the small door that was only half a person high.
Kuang Jinxin put his hand behind his back, quickly stuffed the book into his backpack, and then squatted down, carefully looking at the other side.
Outside the door is a middle-aged man, looking forty-five or six years old, in a suit and leather shoes, with his own majesty. The moonlight reflected the deep outlines of his facial features and the shallow lines at the corners of his eyes, but the eyes in those eyes were firm and resolute, as if they could see through the soul of a person.
"I heard the sound here, I thought it was a mouse." The middle-aged man smiled, looking like he wanted to be kind, but the smile still couldn't dispel the seriousness between his brows.
"I, I came here to find friends, and then I got lost." Kuang Jinxin didn't know the identity of the other party, so he could only give his own information first, or at least change his "good attitude".
"Looking for a friend?" the man said gently. "Tell me his name, maybe I can help you find it."
Kuang Jinxin hesitated.
The man looked at him quietly, neither urging him to speak nor asking him to come out, he maintained such a strange awkward posture of squatting together inside and outside the door.
After staring at each other for a long time, Kuang Jinxin suddenly felt that the man's facial features, especially the eyebrows, were somehow familiar.
Chi Zhuolin!
Kuang Jinxin's eyes widened, and then he carefully looked at the face outside the door, and confirmed without a doubt that these facial features were exactly the same Chi Zhuolin ten years later!
I remember that when Chi Zhuolin treated a guest in Beijing, he once mentioned in the chat at the dinner table that he looks like his father and Chi Yingxue looks like his mother, so at most he has good facial features, and his younger brother is the beauty of the prosperous age. —It was also at that time that Kuang Jinxin clearly realized that President Chi Zhuolin could use all the good words in the world, regardless of the dimension, by blowing up his younger brother.
"I'm looking for... Chi Yingxue." Kuang Jinxin carefully reported the names of his teammates, hoping that his guess would not be wrong.
The outsider was quite surprised, but soon, the accident turned into hospitality: "I'm Chi Yingxue's father, come out quickly, how uncomfortable it is to be inside."
Kuang Jinxin breathed a sigh of relief, and he really guessed it.
At the same time, I am very grateful for my luck. I meet the head of the family as soon as I meet it, so I don't have to worry about being expelled by Brother Zhang and Peng.
"Hello, Uncle Chi." He greeted politely, and then he no longer hesitated, and quickly got out of the small door.
"He's a good boy with good manners." The man patted Kuang Jinxin's head with relief, like a generous elder, "Come with me."
"I heard that Chi Yingxue is ill?" Kuang Jinxin remembered the information he got in the front yard when he was ordered to be expelled.
"Well," the man said lightly, "but I took the medicine and got some sleep. It's much better now."
Then why in the front yard, those two people insisted that Chi Yingxue couldn't see the guests, so they wanted to drive them away so fiercely
Kuang Jinxin was puzzled, but did not continue to ask questions, for fear of involving something that should not be said, after all, it was really unpleasant in the front yard.
For a long time after that, Chi Yingxue's father walked in front, and Kuang Jinxin followed behind.
The moonlight stretched the shadow of the middle-aged man very long.
Kuang Jinxin looked at the tall and broad back, and unconsciously, complex sourness appeared in his heart.
He grew up without a father, so whenever he looked at other people's fathers, he felt both warm and envious.
[My mother has killed me. My father is eating me…]
[Mom killed me, Dad ate me...]
The nursery rhymes that I had read before, without warning, popped out in my mind, and I could even hear the illusory voice of children singing.
A crisp, innocent child's voice, reciting the bloodiest ballads...
Kuang Jinxin stopped abruptly.
Chi Yingxue's father seemed to have eyes behind his back. He stopped in almost the next second and turned around: "What's wrong?"
Kuang Jinxin couldn't answer.
He didn't know what was wrong with him, but he suddenly felt scared. The unease in his heart had no reason, but it was extremely fierce.